Word: successful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bill passed for more surveys. In the last six years Army engineers have spent upwards of $300,000 examining 27 possible routes for the canal. After President Roosevelt's inauguration, Floridians appealed to RFC for a canal loan, then to PWA, finally to WPA, all without success until the September hurricane blew the Dixie into big black headlines throughout...
...loveliness, effervescent gaiety, calm sophistication and utter femininity have endowed her with a theatrical individuality which makes it necessary for her playwright only to give her reasonable opportunity to flutter about and be her charming self. "Biography" contented itself with filling this bill and consequently was a diverting and successful bit of lightness. In an attempt to recapture the mood (and the success) of this production the Theater Guild has enlisted the talents of playwright S. N. Behrman, stage-designer Lee Simonson and director Philip Moeller. The resultant concoction has been symbolically, if unseasonably titled "End of Summer...
...that not all grandiose nuts & nostrums are homegrown. Some ten years ago an engaging young Russian who had taken the name Anatole de la Marti appeared in Manhattan, attempted to interest the late Ivy Lee in publicizing certain large schemes for economic betterment which he had conceived. Meeting no success, M. de la Marti returned to Europe, was forgotten...
...Marti's plan was to establish a "World Record Service . . . for carrying out competitions in all fields of economic activity, with new and hitherto unknown stimulus, and with large cash prizes. . . . The journal or official organ will be the central supporting beam for the success of the competitions and announcements, and the financial part of the enterprise. Its circulation will be enormous. ... To facilitate the work of the World Record Service a HOUSE OF NATIONS will be founded in every country. . . . Here concise accounts will be given on conditions of welfare and economics of all peoples...
...colossal musical saga which tracks through a dozen byways, involves a dozen innocents, reaches a peaceful ending only, when greed has completed its own destruction. Great credit for the current Wagner vogue is due Soprano Kirsten Flagstad, the mighty-voiced Norwegian who last winter won an overnight success as Isolde, went on to prove herself as Brünnhilde, the Ring's long-suffering heroine (TIME, Dec. 23 et ante}. This year Soprano Flagstad is again the Metropolitan's prime drawing-card. As Brunnhilde, she will sing in Die Walkure, Siegfried, Gotterdammerung. Many a Ring ticket...